Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: The general idea of determining cosmological parameters with gravitational lensing statistics is outlined, and then recent work---with an emphasis on applicability to all cosmological models, observational bias, better statistics and robustness testing through numerical simulations---is discussed with relevance to a scheme originally introduced by Kochanek to avoid some of the uncertainties which plague other methods. The main result is that the observations at present---and probably in the future as well---are more indicative of intrinsic scatter than a hint of the correct cosmological model.
Author: PHILLIP HELBIG
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2022286440